Universalia worked with Aga Khan Foundation’s $25 million Social Institutions Development Program (SIDP) to develop a monitoring and performance framework. SIDP is an 11-year program designed to improve the capacity of the citizen sector organizations and institutions to support sustainable human...
Universalia carried out an initial organizational review of AMREF jointly commissioned by CIDA & Sida. Universalia designed the overall approach for this study to include the development of an evaluation framework, to identify data sources, define questions, develop indicators and determine the...
Universalia was mandated by the IUCN to assess the effectiveness of the consortium created to manage the Red List Program (comprised of the Species Survival Commission, Conservation International, Bird Life International and Nature Service) and to develop a framework for evaluating partnerships....
From 2002 to 2005, Universalia worked with the Evaluation Unit of the African Development Bank to design results-based management and evaluation systems to improve the development effectiveness of the Bank. The steps included an initial institutional needs/readiness assessment, followed by design...
The purpose of this review was to assess the on-going relevance and strategic orientation of Rights and Democracy (R&D) programming in the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The evaluation provided R&D with recommendations and conclusions that drew on past performance and experience, but were...
The African Virtual University (AVU) is an e-learning body established to increase access to tertiary level education through the application of information and communications technologies. This 2004 assignment utilised Institutional and Organisational Assessment techniques to conduct a formative...
The objective of this assignment was to evaluate the performance and relevance of five Regional Health Institutes (Caribbean Epidemiology Center, Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute, Caribbean Health Research Council, Caribbean Regional Drug Testing Laboratory, and Caribbean Environmental Health...
This evaluation assessed the development effectiveness of CDB’s response to the human resource development needs of the Borrowing Member Countries (BMC), from the perspective of CDB’s mission, especially related to poverty reduction. More specifically, the evaluation reviewed and to analyzed eight...
The consultancy designed and implemented a performance measurement system to track inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impacts of the Program to Support Implementation (PAI) and its relation to PRS indicators. The system included a software and database that was installed in the municipalities and line...
As part of a larger multi-year monitoring assignment, Universalia undertook organizational assessment of SPO, a Pakistani NGO engaged in strengthening civil society organizations role in democratization and policy development. Subsequent monitoring involved ongoing performance measurement,...